Toroidal Diagonal Hit Points
(Published on 26. August 2024, 20:56 by Laake)
Toroidal Diagonal Hit Points
Put this cheeky puzzle together for Scojo's indexing prompt, and took heavy inspiration from Black Doom's Critial Hit puzzle, which is a very nice one that I recommend checking out! I just decided I had to make the grid a torus. Everything is more fun with a torus. All the cool kids are using them these days.
Rules:
- Normal sudoku rules apply.
- Renban: Digits on a purple renban line form a consecutive set of non-repeating digits. These can be placed in any order.
- Hit Points: Clues outside the grid give the sum of all cells that contain a digit equal to the distance of that cell from that clue along the marked diagonal. For example, a 3 in r1c3 would count towards the 15 clue outside row 4.
- In addition, the Hit Points clues travel around the grid as if it were a torus. When a diagonal hits the edge of the grid, it loops around to the other side and continues. For example, the diagonal that starts in r3c1 going upwards would travel to r1c3, then loop around to r9c4, and finish on r4c9. In this example, a 4 in r9c4 would contribute to the Hit Point sum.
SudokuPad: Click Here
Enjoy!
Solution code: Row 2 please if it's not too much hassle
Comments
on 9. October 2024, 12:29 by Frank Puzzles
https://youtu.be/D8TLCZmNdOg
Here's a link to my solve of the puzzle. It was challenging but fun!
on 9. September 2024, 16:05 by QuiltyAsCharged
Great fun, nifty break-in, totally tubular torus
on 27. August 2024, 01:21 by cybers
Unreasonably fun to solve, thanks for this
on 26. August 2024, 23:41 by ThePedallingPianist
The world needs more toroidal diagonal nonsense! I loved this - such a beautiful break in and the rest flowed very nicely! Superb puzzle :)
on 26. August 2024, 21:10 by Flinty
Hit Points are a wonderful constraint, and this is an excellent adaption. Great puzzle.
